Europe · Premium track
Gibraltar.
Its regulators are the Licensing Authority + Gambling Commissioner and the Gibraltar Financial Services Commission (GFSC).
Our published timeline is 3–6 months.
Gibraltar is one of 15 Premium-track jurisdictions we run, and one of 20 we cover in Europe.
Gibraltar Gaming Licence
A blue-chip, low-tax European licence — respected and deliberately hard to get.
View details →Gibraltar Crypto Licence
The world-first GFSC DLT framework — principles-based, premium, non-MiCA.
View details →Gibraltar at a glance.
- Application fee
- £10,000
- Annual licence fee
- £75,000 (B2C) / £100,000 (B2B)
- Gaming duty
- 0.15% of GGY (cap £425,000/yr)
- Local office
- Required (real substance)
- Timeline
- 3–6 months
- Regulator
- Licensing Authority + Gambling Commissioner
- Licence
- DLT Provider licence (+ VASP registration)
- Regulator
- Gibraltar Financial Services Commission (GFSC)
- Framework
- 10 regulatory principles (principles-based)
- Capital
- Risk-based reserve (proportionate to scale/risk)
- Annual fee
- £10,000 flat (+ up to £20,000 by complexity)
- EU passport
- No — Gibraltar is outside the EU/MiCA
Figures are the current published cost and timeline for a clean file. We confirm both in writing before you commit.
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